Katie Lachapelle is in her ninth season with the Terriers in 2015-16, having helped BU become and remain a perennial national power.
In Lachapelle's time with the Terriers, she has helped guide the team to five Hockey East titles and six NCAA tournament appearances, including a trip to the national title game in 2011 and 2013. She received the 2013 Women's Ice Hockey Assistant Coach Award from the American Hockey Coaches Association.
On April 18, 2013, Lachapelle was named an assistant coach of the U.S. Women's National Under-18 Team, a post she has held ever since. She has helped lead Team USA to three straight gold medals at the International Ice Hockey Federation Under-18 Women's World Championship, most recently in 2017 in the Czech Republic. She also won gold in Buffalo, New York, in 2015 and again in St. Catharine's, Ontario, in 2016. Lachapelle also guided Team USA to silver at the 2014 tournament. In addition, Lachapelle has also coached at USA Hockey camps in each of the last six summers, helping at various Girls' Select 14, 15 and 16 Player Development Camps.
Lachapelle joined Brian Durocher's staff at BU in 2008 after four years as an assistant coach at Ohio State. Her responsibilities with the Buckeyes included recruiting and evaluating prospective student-athletes, monitoring academics, organizing the team's community service projects, coordinating team travel and meals, breaking down video and assisting with daily practices and games. Ohio State went 67-65-15 during Lachapelle's tenure in Columbus.
Before joining the staff at Ohio State, Lachapelle served as an assistant coach at Niagara for three seasons. The Purple Eagles tallied a 49-49-8 record during her years there and made an appearance in the 2002 NCAA Women's Frozen Four. She was involved in all facets of the Niagara program including recruiting, coordinating team travel, monitoring academics and coaching the forwards.
Prior to Niagara, Lachapelle was an assistant coach at Union for two years, where she planned and conducted practices, assisted with recruiting and coached the defense.
Lachapelle was a four-year letter winner at Providence from 1995-99. During her playing days with the Friars, Lachapelle was a team captain, an All-ECAC honorable mention and was named to the 1997 ECAC All-Star team.
A native of Lewiston, Maine, Lachapelle graduated from Providence in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in social science. She resides in Winthrop.
